You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
~By Alan Alda ~
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
~By Conor Cruise O'Brien ~
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
~By Albert Brooks ~
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
~By Kristen Bell ~
It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.
~By Stone Gossard ~
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
~By Felix Adler ~
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
~By Lionel Blue ~
It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
~By Johnny Damon ~
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
~By Andrea Corr ~
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
~By William Banting ~
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
~By Mac Davis ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
~By Martin Luther ~
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.
~By Nikki Cox ~
I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.
~By Willie Mays ~
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
~By Bill Moyers ~
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
~By Amy Tan ~
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~By David Brainerd ~
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
~By Susannah York ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
~By Nick Nolte ~
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.
~By Kathy Valentine ~
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
~By Billy Crystal ~
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
~By Grant Show ~
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
~By Amanda Pays ~
This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
~By Judy Biggert ~
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
~By Beth Anderson ~
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
~By Leverett Saltonstall ~
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
~By Octavia Butler ~
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
~By Geddy Lee ~
There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
Comfort came in with the middle classes.
~By Clive Bell ~
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
~By Peter Banks ~
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
~By Serj Tankian ~
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.
~By Catherine Crier ~
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
~By Frank Langella ~
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
~By John Churton Collins ~
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
~By Beth Henley ~
Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
~By Pat Morita ~
I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.
~By Ron Francis ~
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.
~By Verne Troyer ~
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
~By John Malkovich ~
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.
~By Josh Holloway ~
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
~By Sue Johanson ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~By Margot Asquith ~
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
~By Michael Flanders ~
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide.
~By Antonio Pigafetta ~
I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
~By Mary Matalin ~
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
~By Diane Lane ~
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
~By Maya Lin ~
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
~By Anita Hill ~
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
~By Pat Sajak ~
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
~By Beck ~
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
~By Ben Nelson ~
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
~By John Buchan ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.
~By Bill Hayden ~
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
~By Carlos Alazraqui ~
I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
~By Brian Tracy ~
As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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